Wilderness Of Mirrors

Lawrence English
Wilderness of Mirrors
Room 40

The Australian composer's latest album is inspired by T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion," a poem that coined the phrase "Wilderness Of Mirrors"—which itself became a widely used term during the Cold War to describe intentionally misleading behaviour from opposing intelligence agencies.

Inspired by MBV and Swans he burys a singularity in each track slowly reflected back upon itself in a flood of compositional feedback.

**1. (6:21) Beautiful but noisy bowing (with box harp? and piano?) with effervescent static waves, subtle intricacies
2. (2:38) Buzzy synth strobes over fluttering butterflies, ominous growl from the depths emerges
3. (2:02) Quiet. Rumbles, ominous plod approaching, fighting in the distance, runs into 4
*4. (6:26) Electric roar, quiet-ish but vibrations everywhere, tone emerging out of it all, then spreads out and relaxes a little, gets pretty and floaty
5. (3:19) Quiet, higher tones and lower hums, eerie, subtle
*6. (8:25) Layers of noise, repetitive, humans chanting buried in the noise? gets quiet then builds harmonic drone, a couple of skips then back to drone with women's humming tones, harmonica? it all gets buried in fuzzy noise drone
**7. (5:10) Pulsing goat horns, mysterious pretty flutes, breathy female vox, synth and noise
*8. (4:48) Breathy synth pulses, light screeches, loud feedback casio tones